Publications

Participatory Management in Public Extension Services

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National Agricultural Extension Services (NAES) are usually criticised for not doing enough, not doing what they do well enough, and not being relevant enough to clients/farmers. This criticism applies to many public service delivery organisations worldwide. Participatory approaches can...

Miguel Loureiro

Parks and people: the case of Lipeo, a village within Baritú National Park, Salta, Argentina

Too Much Inequality or Too Little? Inequality and Stagnation in Ethiopian Agriculture

IDS Bulletin Vol. 36 Nos. 2

A powerful strand of thinking about the causes of long-term agricultural stagnation in Ethiopia defines the problem in terms of inequality. Indeed, it is possible to interpret most Ethiopian agricultural policy initiatives of the past three decades in terms of divergent views on the extent and...

Stephen Devereux & 2 others

Tools for the Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic Policies

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Marzia Fontana

UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice

Richard Jolly

Understanding the Politics of the Budget Process: Driving Change in Mozambique and Malawi

Report for UK Department for International Development

Why a Culture of Active Citizenship Ought to be Cultivated

Introduction: Elites, Perceptions and Poverties

We had a lot of fun producing this book. The field investigations were stimulating in their own right, but all the more exhilarating because we were aware of being the first researchers ever to collect consistent, comparative information on how national elites perceive the character, causes of...

Elites, Poverty and Public Policy

Much of the time, the realists are probably right. The question of how often they are right cannot be settled through social science research. We simply do not have the analytic tools or the data to determine the answer. That does not prevent most of us having views on these issues. But those...

So Near and Yet So Far: Elites and Imagined Poverty in Bangladesh

Beyond Numbers: Feminisms, Democracy, and the Challenge of Inclusion

Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

This basic ‘how-to’ guide aims to help frontline staff and field facilitators to understand the philosophy and principles of CLTS, and to use some of the practical tools and techniques flexibly and freely.

Kamal Kar